Description: Budayeen Nights (ISBN 1-930846-19-3) is George Alec Effinger's first short-fiction collection in ten years, and features all nine stories set in the 'Budayeen,' the locale of his three best known novels: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss. Budayeen Nights features a story entitled 'Marîd Throws a Party,' which was to have been the first two chapters of the fourth 'Budayeen' novel (Word of Night). This collection also contains an unfinished story, 'The Plastic Pasha,' which George was writing exclusively for this volume when he passed away in April 2002. George Alec Effinger's stories have been unavailable and out of print for far too long, and Golden Gryphon Press takes great pride in publishing this first volume of his short fiction.
With an insightful Foreword and story introductions by Barbara Hambly, author of the “Benjamin January” mystery series.